The ProQuest PodQuast: Recent Episodes
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A new collaboration between ProQuest and the Chicago History Museum has digitized a wealth of valuable records from the African American Police League (AAPL), an organization founded in the 1960s to fight racial discrimination and police brutality and to improve relations between African Americans and law enforcement.
We spoke to the Chicago History Museum's Julie Wroblewski about the League, the collection and a typical week in the life of an archivist.
Adam Blackwell discusses findings from his research into fake news. What he learned might surprise you and will definitely help you guard yourself from this ever-growing epidemic.
Walt Whitman scholar and literary sleuth Zachary Turpin talks about the importance of making unheard voices heard.
In our debut episode, we talk to Zachary Turpin, an Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Idaho and a literary sleuth who has rediscovered lost works by Walt Whitman and Anne Sexton.